What’s up with cat shelters?

[fd3]

Looking to get a kitten, rehoming as opposed to from a breeder (because).

Every one of them will only give out cats to people who already have cats, because apparently the cats need company.  As if cats aren’t solitary creatures or anything (ffs).

[phantasmagoriana]

I don't think cats need company particularly, but I can see why kittens would (learning how to cat from older cats).

What about an adult cat?

[Thing2]

Is it a cat vs kitten issue? I was talking to friends over the weekend and they'd had lots of issues with rescue centres not allowing them to re-home a pair of cats as they already had one.

[Jaded]

Introducing a new cat to an old one needs to be done carefully. I'd be prepared for up to two weeks of separate rooms and gradual intros.

Whenever we have had single cats, they have been lonely. Like now.

[rafletcher]

Looking to get a kitten, rehoming as opposed to from a breeder (because).

Every one of them will only give out cats to people who already have cats, because apparently the cats need company.  As if cats aren’t solitary creatures or anything (ffs).

Have a look at your closest RSPCA shelter. We’re on our 3rd “only cat in the house” “adults only” cat.

[fd3]

We're not an "adults only" home, we're an "autistic daughter obsessed with cats" home.  It is less evident that she is immensely considerate and cautious about cats.

[Mr Larrington]

A new cat acquired Miss von Brandenburg by stealth recently, on account of said cat setting up home in her garden and waiting.  Part of me is hoping she hasn’t managed to move to Hastings before November as otherwise I'll be the indentured servant of two cats for a couple of weeks while she’s flogging T-shaped shirts to innocent Germans.

[Mrs Pingu]

No chance for you to get 2 kittens?

[rogerzilla]

Cat shelters like to get shot of two at a time, because they have too many.  That's my theory.

Cats don't need company.  They're not social animals.

[Jaded]

Some cats are.

[Woofage]

No chance for you to get 2 kittens?

Having re-homed kittens both singly and in pairs, I would recommend the above. Basically they occupy each other so you don't have to.

[hellymedic]

Some cats are.

Our two certainly have social skilz, which would shame some humans. They don't fight with each other and behave like Darby and Joan much of the time. Blackie has a tendency to befriend young kittens and show them round the place.
Tom was a very good Daddy to the litter when their pregnant mother turned against them.

[fd3]

No chance for you to get 2 kittens?

I had just come to accept this as the only option, but now they won't allow us to get cats because we live too close to a main road.
Not that this stops both our neighbours from having cats, or in fact half our street from having cats.  No wonder people end up going to fecking breeders.

[Peter]

I think he changed his name when he became a Muslim.

[rogerzilla]

I think he changed his name when he became a Muslim.

The truly terrible jokes thread is over there -->

[Peter]

 

[L CC]

No chance for you to get 2 kittens?

I had just come to accept this as the only option, but now they won't allow us to get cats because we live too close to a main road.
Not that this stops both our neighbours from having cats, or in fact half our street from having cats.  No wonder people end up going to fecking breeders.

There is a middle ground between breeder and rescue- have you checked the local papers/ newsagents window (is that still a thing?)/ gumtree?

No1Daughter's just got a 'free to a good home' kitteh- though I don't know how she passed the 'good home' test when her cats generally leave home after a year or two. Timothée Chatlamet has been with her a week.

[rogerzilla]

Tigs came from an ad on Pets4homes, free of charge at 1 year old because he didn't get on with the previous owners' dog.

Dumpy was a local stray tom who stalked Tigs for months and stared through the french windows twice a day until I gave in and bagged him.

[fd3]

I am not above just leaving food out to steal someone else's cat.  My wife has a bad case of morals though.